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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Blog Updates for August 2009

Aug 14. On the Case Histories page we added: PCA International has 6 videos by medical personnel and patients here.


Aug 14. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: A 2009 review of prostate cancer screening and prevention by Eric Klein (papers) of the Cleveland Clinic is available here: [Full Text] [PMID: 19652036].


Aug 14. In How Healthy Men Can Reduce Their Risk we added: Eric Klein (papers) of the Cleveland Clinic recommends biopsy to his patients if this risk calculator assesses the risk of prostate cancer to exceed 10%. See this paper: [Full Text] [PMID: 19652036].

Aug 14. In Prostate Cancer Calculators we added: Risk prior to biopsy. In this paper: Eric Klein (papers) of the Cleveland Clinic recommends biopsy to his patients if this risk calculator assesses the risk of prostate cancer to exceed 10%: [Full Text] [PMID: 19652036]. The calculator gives risk of prostate cancer and risk of advanced prostate cancer given: Race, Age, PSA level in ng/ml, Family History of Prostate Cancer, Digital Rectal Examination results, Prior Prostate Biopsy and whether the patient is taking finasteride.


Aug 3. Updated the Guidelines line of the Links box to the right to point to a more recent version of the:
ASCO guidelines

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